FC4 slimfast slimfest

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Thu Feb 24 12:40:00 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 18:24 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 01:00 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> >I dont want to make this a sendmail/postfix/exim/other email server war, 
> >but I think that is a little too much...
> >Just because one distribution ships exim/koffice/put your favourite app 
> >here as default , it doesnt necessarily mean that's the right choice for 
> >all distributions.
> 
> That's true, but in this case Debian happens to have it right. We should
> do what Debian does here because they're _right_, not just because
> they're doing it and we have to follow.

In that case I would be curious about the reasons which make exim more
"right" than say postfix, otherwise it's only an "everyone wants his pet
MTA" thing.

Nils
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